The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-28
Jubilee Naval Review.

PORTSMOUTH, July 2o.-HOfISmOuIn
and Southsea have been thronged for
days past in anticipation of the jubilee
naval review fixed for this afternoon at
Spithead. The crowds have been i'm
menSely augmented this morning by
the arrival of innumerable visitors
from all parts of the country. The
weather could not be more favorable.
Everybody is in holiday attire and gay
dresses and splendid uniforms with
crowded thoroughfareS form brilliant
appearance. Special trains brought
down from London lords of the admit
rally, members of the house of lords
and commons and numerous rep
resentatives of foreign legations.
The scene at Portsmouth was one
of extreme animation. Hundreds of
private craft of every description, all
handsomely decorated and well freight
ed with gaily dressed people, being an
chored here. 1t looked like gigantic
marine picnic. Bonnie Doom carried
scores of Americans. The crowds
afloat and ashore were enormous. On
arriving at the Portsmouth dOckyard
the favored ones embarked on board
| the troop ships appointed to convey
them from here and from Southampton
to Spithead. The first troop ships to
| leave with guests were two huge Indian
| SOulIldI1DIOus
| cited much admiration from the crowds
on shore. They were quickly followed
| by others from the Portsmouth dock
yard jetty. Vessels participating
in the pageant as parajers numbered
| 12S penantS, and included SquadronS of
ironclads and cruisers, aggregating "a
vessels, rs torpedo boats, gunboats and
iron defense ships divided into six flo
| tillas, six training brigs and thirteen
/ CHI
under drill there were imperial and
Indian troop ships appointed to carry
distinguished visitors, and small YES
sells and dock yard craft allotted to the
corporation of Portsmouth, all of
which were well laden and briskly
used. The war ships were drawn up
in four lines, facing the channel, the
starboard column being opposite the
| Isle of Wight the port column being OFF
Portsmouth.
| The ships were stationed two cables
apart, lines being three cables between.
| The fiotillaS were ranged in double col
umns between the port column of iron
cIads and the mainland, and the troop
ships were placed in single column be
tween the starboard line and the Isle OF
Wight. This made four lines of YES
sells on one side of the channel and
three on the other, extending from
Southcastle to Rye mid shOal. dis
lance of over two miles. Each ship
was patrolled by a steamboat placed
between her and the shiI
next to eastward, iin order to keep the
scene free from intrusion. The Moni
taur kept clear the east approach IL
the alley between the ironcIad col
umns, and the AginScourt did the same
for each approach to the alley between
the divisions and fiotillas. at II
J O'Clock two DevenshiTe tugs blocked
the west entrance to the lines to al
, but ships of war, and the Manly anC
Malta, at 2 O'Clock, went on duty
keeping the eastern entrance to thu
lines clear from tugs, being under or
ders of the master of the feet. ThG
troop ships and other vessels convey
ing visitors were permitted to make {
tour of the columns before O'Clock
after which they took UP the positions
assigned them. The small vessels ap
propriated to visitors anchored at
O'Clock abreast of the torpedo fiotilias
The private craft carrying sightseer
: must have numbered several hundred
representing pleasure boats of all ma
! lions and chimes. which darted abou
like birds of different plumage, impart
2 an unparalleled beauty to the seem
otherwise unprecedented.
: The whole scene was magnificent
surveyed just before two O'Clock, whel
the naval vessels were all in place, thei
decorations full flung and their crew
in holiday pose, private craft hurryin
: to good places, and multitudes ashor
, packing themselves in the best place
= to see. The event of the day was gle
: rious in the extreme probability that n
!. such feet was ever before seen in tim
of peace. The review of the Crimea
= fleet by the queen and prince consori
. thirty-one years ago, would suffer
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